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Let's meet those headlines (mander.xyz)
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[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug 101 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Consider the following

Saxophone - Persephone

[–] samus12345 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sax-oh-fo-nay

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Huh, the way I say Persephone (per-seh-fuh-knee), Saxophone would be pronounced sax-aw-fuh-knee or maybe sax-oh-phony (the way I say saxophone normally in my accent is sacks-uh-phone)

[–] samus12345 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, "ay" at the end is closer to the original Greek than the "ee" way we say it in English.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

TIL, thanks!

[–] nomecks 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Michael Bublé - Google

[–] BodePlotHole 10 points 10 months ago

Canoes - Volcanoes

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug 1 points 10 months ago

This one is cursed

[–] MaxVoltage 5 points 10 months ago

MalEcoLes ParTecUles